vi unix how to see later pages and chaange colors
Hi,
In putty vi editor vi unix how to see later pages and change colors for bettwer view.
i open big property file not able to see what is at bottom.
how to search in vi editor for some text sat xyz.
setting i went i changed colors , font etc not reflecting.
what is best setting to give for better view
when i opened
abc.properties in vi
it says 536L, 28390C
what is L what is C
how to know how many lines there how many it is showing etc
can i use winscp free version for production servers viewing property files?
please advise
In putty vi editor vi unix how to see later pages and change colors for bettwer view.
i open big property file not able to see what is at bottom.
how to search in vi editor for some text sat xyz.
setting i went i changed colors , font etc not reflecting.
what is best setting to give for better view
when i opened
abc.properties in vi
it says 536L, 28390C
what is L what is C
how to know how many lines there how many it is showing etc
can i use winscp free version for production servers viewing property files?
please advise
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Arrow key down will go down, arrow key right, arrow key up......
See quick reference guide.
Page, 5 presuming 24 lines per page
In read mode, enter 96G
And you'll be 96 lines down from your current position.
Ctrl+g or ctrl+G will tell you your current position.
See quick reference guide.
Page, 5 presuming 24 lines per page
In read mode, enter 96G
And you'll be 96 lines down from your current position.
Ctrl+g or ctrl+G will tell you your current position.
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Arrow key down will go down, arrow key right, arrow key up......
say i want to search on london in file xyz.properties
then i do
vi xyz.properties
once it opens
i do like
?london
then i click enter button right
to find next entry of london i click agin enter button right
i was not clear instead of enter how you click up arrow and down ward arrow?
please advise
Usually, when you open a file, your position is ar the top, searching backwards(?) will find no matches, /London/i will tell it to search for the pattern no matter the case.
grep -I 'london' xyz.properties
You are posting partial information with your question which does not make it clear what gig are after.
If you want to replace all instances of London with Paris
After opening the file you type using the keyboard the following as written ":%s/London/Paris/g"
Once you hit enter all matches of London will be changed Paris including on the same line (g on the end tells it to pergorm the match/replace on all).
: indicates a command to ve run
%s means all line substitution
/ is used as a delimiter between match pattern and replacement pattern.
If the pattern includes / you must escape as follows \/.
Depending on vi/vim if available, when you search, often all matches are "highlighted"
grep -I 'london' xyz.properties
You are posting partial information with your question which does not make it clear what gig are after.
If you want to replace all instances of London with Paris
After opening the file you type using the keyboard the following as written ":%s/London/Paris/g"
Once you hit enter all matches of London will be changed Paris including on the same line (g on the end tells it to pergorm the match/replace on all).
: indicates a command to ve run
%s means all line substitution
/ is used as a delimiter between match pattern and replacement pattern.
If the pattern includes / you must escape as follows \/.
Depending on vi/vim if available, when you search, often all matches are "highlighted"
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can you give grep on vi editor like below
grep -I 'london' xyz.properties
i do not want to replace anything.
i just want to search on a file different string elements exist or not
as of now i am doing
\london
or
?london
not sure difference between them though
grep -I 'london' xyz.properties
i do not want to replace anything.
i just want to search on a file different string elements exist or not
as of now i am doing
\london
or
?london
not sure difference between them though
Grep is a shell command that can be run on the file searching for a pattern.
Look a man grep for guidance on its utilization...
Look a man grep for guidance on its utilization...
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Grep is a shell command that can be run on the file searching for a pattern.
my requirement is search in vi editor once i open file there
not before opening file grepping on that file name?
If search within vi, refer to the vi quick guide and prior comments
/pattern
/pattern
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any option to search both backwards and forwards?
does it show total number of lines when i do vi on a files say xyz.properties
vi is only showing part of the page how to scroll down to later part of the page or last part of the page or how to go to page number 5